The locally nilpotent epsilon-derivation conjecture

Let KK be a field of characteristic 00, let A\mathcal A be a KK-algebra, and let δ\delta be a locally nilpotent KK-derivation or KK-ε\varepsilon-derivation of A\mathcal A. Here, a derivation satisfies δ(ab)=δ(a)b+aδ(b)\delta(ab)=\delta(a)b+a\delta(b), while an ε\varepsilon-derivation satisfies δ(ab)=bδ(a)+aδ(b)δ(a)δ(b)\delta(ab)=b\delta(a)+a\delta(b)-\delta(a)\delta(b); locally nilpotent means that every element is annihilated by some positive power of δ\delta. The locally nilpotent epsilon-derivation conjecture. For every ideal II of A\mathcal A, the image δ(I)\delta(I) is a Mathieu–Zhao subspace of A\mathcal A. The paper presents this as a major conjecture it does not prove, concerning images of locally nilpotent derivations and epsilon-derivations.

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Matthew Speck, “Mathieu-Zhao Subspaces of Vertex Algebras”, arXiv:2209.10004 (2022).

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